When Du Dian returned to his castle from Lane Castle, he saw from a distance beside the clear Moza River, there was an exquisite noble carriage with a family flag with a black giant snake pattern on it. Drive to your own castle.
A man dressed as a butler stood outside the noble carriage parked by the river next to the castle. When he heard the sound of the wheels, he immediately looked back. When he saw Dudian driving, his eyes lit up and he bent over to the people in the car. Whispered back. There was a soft "hmm" in the car, and the curtain slowly lifted, revealing a soft and beautiful cheek, with the grace of a mature woman, and the emerald eyes gently sized up the young man driving the carriage, What surprised her was that this young man was quite different from what she had expected. He was not like a new star who had just risen in the east, full of vigor and high spirits, but rather like a ghost in the depths of the darkness, calm and cold, as if he was burning like hell. Ji's scorching heat would cool down even three feet around him.
After taking a deep look, she slowly opened the car door, got out of the carriage, and stood on the dry stone road. There was a white flower in front of the black shoes, and the soft black skirt almost touched the ground, and the gap was exposed. A touch of snow-white ankles, amazing, she stood dignifiedly by the door, watched Du Dian slowly approaching quietly, and said softly: "You are Mr. Du Dian, please excuse me."
Du Dian has long noticed that this woman dressed as a noble lady looks like a 20-year-old woman from the complexion, but she looks like a 30-year-old young woman with a refined temperament and a very light manly smell on her body. It can be seen that she is a woman who is clean and self-sufficient , even single women. His eyes were calm, and he said calmly: "Hello, what's the matter?"
"Can we go to your castle to talk?" the woman asked gently.
Du Dian roughly guessed the purpose of her visit, and said: "If you are talking about buying a crossbow, please just tell us the price. I will make the final choice based on the conditions proposed by the various consortiums. If you are talking about future cooperation, sorry, For the time being, I have no plans to leave the New World Consortium."
Granita didn't expect Du Dian to be so direct, so straightforward that she was even a little rude. After a moment of surprise, she said gently: "Mr. Du, the Krylov Consortium I represent wants to talk to you, including the above two things, In addition, I know that Mr. Du has received the kindness of the Ryan family, but the structure of the Ryan family is only so big. When the scorching sun rises into the sky, when there is a ray of light, if it rises from the shallows, the shallows will be the first to be scorched. She paused and continued: "What the Ryan family can give Mr. Du, we can give, and far more than them, so I hope Mr. Du can think about it, because this is for you and for you." The Ryan family is all good."
Du Dian reined in the horse rope, stopped the carriage, sat on the wooden board and looked down at her quietly. After a while, he said slowly: "Your consortium wants to get closer to me, and the only way to get closer to me is through the new world consortium. Cooperation is the only way, I will never withdraw from the New World Consortium."
Granita was slightly stunned. She didn't expect that she had said so clearly, but Du Dian didn't move at all, and didn't even make any request. She frowned slightly and said, "Mr. Du, Xinshi Financial Group can't tolerate you, you On the contrary, the existence of the Xinshi Consortium will attract enemies that it cannot resist, and when troubles arise, the Xinshi Consortium will not be able to keep you."
Du Dian looked at her and said slowly: "I hope that among the enemies of the Xinshi Consortium, there is no Krylov Consortium." At the same time, he silently said: "At least not now."
Granita sighed softly when she heard what he said, and said, "Since Mr. Du is so determined, I won't force him anymore, but please rest assured that the goodwill of our Krylov Consortium will always be there. You are all welcome to join." Suddenly thought of something, opened the handbag, took out an emerald card from it and handed it to Du Dian, saying: "This is my personal business card, and it is also the VIP card of all industries under my command. Please accept the gift of thanks for interrupting me."
Du Dian thought for a moment, took it over, and glanced at the name on it: Granita.
"This name...is a little familiar." Du Dian's eyes moved slightly, and after a glance, he calmly put it away.
Granita sighed, still a little regretful, turned and got into her carriage.
Du Dian didn't stay any longer, shook the horse rope, passed by the vehicle, and entered his castle.
"Ma'am." After Du Dian left, the butler asked inside the car, "Is that all?"
Granita said softly: "When the Mellon Consortium or other consortiums attack, he will come over naturally, let's go back."
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Entering the castle, Du Dian calmed down, sat down at the desk in his room, took out a page of paper, and began to draw new drawings. If there was no spring of life to heal his arm, he might consider making a firearm next, but now There is hope for his arm to recover, and he still intends to continue to take the route of cold weapons. As for firearms, the production of firearms will help him far less than the threat to him.
The destructive power of the bow will increase with the quality of the bow and the user's own physique. The higher the physique, the higher the lethality of the arrow.
But the firearms are constant, both ordinary people and advanced hunters use them, but their power is the same. If he switched to a bow and arrow, he felt that after his physique reached the limit of an advanced hunter, the destructive power of the arrow would not be inferior to the bullets, and even exceed the rate of fire of most rifle bullets! As for the destructive power, it can be improved by pouring mercury into the arrowhead that he had imagined before. After reading the super chip, he realized that his unintentional idea coincided with an internationally banned bullet in the old era. It's dum bomb!
The terrifying and destructive power of the dum bomb is known as the bullet of death, and those who hit it will die!
The arrow made with the principle of imitating dum bullets matches his arrow speed, and the destructive power will exceed that of the firearm, so the manufacture can be delayed. After all, if firearms are born, accidentally go wrong, are copied by other financial groups or the Holy See of Light, and then mass-produced secretly, for hunters like them, it will be like a thorn in the throat, let them be manipulated, and completely lose their freedom and deterrence.
Moreover, the demise of the hunter profession alone is the second, and the punishers of the court will also lose their deterrent power in front of guns. Once there are no punishers to deter the Quartet, the court will be useless and no longer have the ability to execute judgments and maintain the law , when the time comes, there will be chaos inside the wall!
Therefore, although it is easy to make guns, it is extremely difficult to prevent the chain reaction caused by guns. He also does not want to live in fear all the time, so as not to be killed by ordinary people lurking around him.
"If the firearms come out, then the pattern inside the wall will completely evolve into an era in which the order is determined by firearms. Blood will flow into rivers and fall into chaotic power struggles." Du Dian's eyes flickered, which he did not want to see. Rather than disorderly chaos, he prefers to use the law of darkness to destroy order in order, and then create his own order.
"Gunpowder is banned, and other items with great destructive power are also banned, but these items have a big gap compared with firearms. There are too many conditions and factors required for the explosion of gunpowder, which greatly limits the threat of gunpowder. Chaos." Du Dian tapped the pen on the table lightly, lost in thought, "If there is a lightning rod in a short period of time, the accumulation of obvious wealth is enough. If you create other things immediately, it will cause suspicion, and the upward momentum will also increase. If it is so fast that it will scare all the consortia, it will destroy itself instead."
"The next step to consider is the military background of the consortium."
"There are currently no high-level hunters in the consortium, which is one of the reasons why other consortiums despise them. The deterrence of a high-level hunter is enough to make other consortiums a little bit afraid, which is equivalent to the nuclear weapons of the old powers. If you are suppressed or forced into a desperate situation by other means, you can also send high-level hunters to assassinate the enemy's high-level officials. Give these consortiums some deterrence, no one is willing to exchange their own lives with those of hunters."
Du Dian secretly said: "If there are enough hunters, other consortiums will not dare to offend easily. With the current financial resources, it is difficult to go to a regular hunter school to attract new hunters, and it is too expensive to buy magic marks for them. , can only rely on hunting outside the wall and be self-sufficient.”
Thinking of this, I immediately started to draw the drawings.
time flies.
Two days passed.
The "Military Crossbow" turmoil has not dissipated in the consortia and the Temple of Elements. In the past two days, except for the Mellon consortium, the other five consortiums have all found Du Dian or Fulin and wanted to buy them. The military department also found Du Dian. The proposed price was nearly a third higher than that of other consortiums.
After careful selection and discussion with Mr. Fulin, Du Dian finally chose the Huasheng Consortium that made him more excited at the beginning. Considering the next cleaning plan outside the wall, if there is a map of the Huasheng Consortium, it is natural. Get twice the result with half the effort.
However, neither Du Dian nor Mr. Fulin let go of this opportunity to make a fortune, and they blackmailed the Huasheng consortium almost to the bottom line. In addition to the map as a free gift, the price has also been raised to the price of a four-star boutique , and in several industries of the Huasheng Consortium, there are shares of the Ryan family, which can receive regular dividends and have the right to decide the direction of these industries.
The contract was finally signed, and both parties were happy.
Du Dian and Mr. Fulin knew that although they forced each other to face pain during the negotiation, which seemed to have greatly optimized the interests of this time, for the Huasheng Consortium, these industries seemed to be important. But in reality, it is an industry that can be abandoned by flipping hands, and it will not lose half of the profits of the consortium. Even if there is a fallout, some methods can be used in the future to kick Mr. Fulin from the board of directors and cut off the dividends.
"460,000 gold coins, tsk tsk..." Mr. Flynn repeatedly counted the numbers on the back of the savings ticket, his wrinkled facial features bloomed, even though he had witnessed the glory days of the Ryan family in his youth, I have never seen such a large amount of savings gold certificates with my own eyes. If I hadn't been mentally prepared, I would have been so excited that I lost my mind on the spot.
Du Dian smiled, this is the value of God's envoy, and it is also the charm of four-star top-grade military items. If it is a one-star item, it can sell for thousands of gold coins at most, for a two-star item, it can reach about 6,000 to 10,000, and for a three-star item, it is much higher. At least around 50,000 to 100,000, and four-star items start with a minimum of 200,000 gold coins. His crossbow is not only top-grade, but also in time for the border war, the price is higher, and it is sold to the top level of four-star items .
As for the five-star items, all of them are masterpieces of millions of gold coins. Every item is either a must-have item for every household or a must-have special item for nobles. It is spread to the three areas and the inner wall, making countless profits.
"We are suddenly comparable to the background of the upper-middle-class nobles." Fulin said with emotion. With the golden ticket in his hand, their wealth is already close to that of a second-tier top family like Milan, but in terms of connections and property, Still can't compare with the Milan family, the latter's real estate wealth can easily kill the savings gold ticket in his hand.
Du Dian smiled slightly and said: "With this money, it is enough to redeem people."
"It's more than enough, it's more than enough." Fulin smiled happily and said, "Why don't you go outside the wall in the future, and after you buy the spring of life to heal your arm, you can study the magic in the wall with peace of mind. Make another piece of work like a military crossbow, and we will completely turn around."
Du Dian smiled and said: "Money is only useful when it is spent. If you can't spend it, or if others don't give you the opportunity to spend it, it's just a string of numbers. Hunters are the foundation of the consortium. In terms of business means, It is too difficult for us to catch up with other consortia's decades of background and management, but it is much easier to cultivate a few high-level hunters."
Hearing this, Flynn put away his smile, turned to look at him and said, "You don't plan to assassinate members of the Mellon Consortium after you become a senior hunter, do you?"
Du Dian smiled bitterly and said, "Do I look like such a stupid person?"
"That's good." Fulin breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "If you assassinate the top executives of the consortium, it will inevitably cause them to panic collectively. Using all your connections to let the judge intervene in the investigation at the highest level, there is no guarantee that you will be able to escape, and even if the assassination The Mellon consortium will not be destroyed if their top management is killed. Their business empire is supported by countless mainstays. It will also become a pile of fat, which will be quickly eaten by other financial groups, and will not flow into our mouths."
Du Dian shrugged, of course he knew this, otherwise he would have assassinated the top executives of the Mellon Consortium just like he had assassinated Deacon Hollett. After all, this is not a world where force is paramount, unless he masters supreme force such as nuclear weapons, or he surpasses advanced Hunters, but so far, he doesn't know whether advanced hunters are the limit of human evolution.
Therefore, if you want to destroy such a consortium giant, you still have to rely on commercial suppression, and commercial suppression will also involve all aspects of the industry. The opponent is like a towering giant tree with dense branches and leaves, and its roots also penetrate in all directions. , all walks of life, if you want to pull it down, you must pull all the roots out of the soil, and the strength required is self-evident.
However, a consortium is the product of decades of management by dozens of families. It has condensed countless generations of wisdom and hard work. It is extremely difficult for one person to overthrow it. It is even no less than the old times. The road to becoming an emperor against the sky.
that day.
Du Dian returned to the Temple of Elements, spent about 30,000 gold coins, found a high-level god and used points to buy a bottle of life spring water for himself, and owed a favor.
This "spring of life" is stored in a small glass bottle. The liquid is green and full of vitality. Du Dian shakes it a few times and it feels like mucus. He is curious and doesn't know what it is made of, but it is similar to the old times. Buying a drink is different, there will definitely not be any recipe ingredients written on it, even if you inquire about it, it will be difficult to know, and even the Temple of Elements will notice bad ideas.